I'm looking foward to:
New Black Keys!
New David Bowie!
New Depeche Mode!
Atoms for Peace. The Thom Yorke/Nigel Godrich/Flea/Joey Waronker collaboration.
I'm also curious to hear the new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, although the loss of Mick Harvey, I think, is going to hurt.
Of course, I'll love hearing the new My Bloody Valentine, although I'm not holding my breath that it'll actually be out any time soon.

OMG R11 me want want want! The Knife will slay all, yes. That was the one I was most interested in.
Great to see some MBV fans here - I like that they put the album to buy on their website. Talk about long awaited! But they did have that recent comeback tour and some great reissues, like those essential EPs.
I'm still loving the music from last year, best year for music in a while: Crystal Castles, Beach House, Grimes, Regina, Bill Fay, The XX, Tame Impala.

What a pretentious list....meh!

Love it R28, one of the best songs of last year. She has no right to be, but cooler than her sister at least.

Jessie Ware - the entire album is great. (thanks Jon)

I like Sabotage on the new Suede album. Overall the album is great and has the good rock glam vibe Suede is known for.

Music and book threads are a huge reason why I keep coming back to DL. Some of the best recommendations I've ever had have come from posters here.

Scottish Indie Band Frigthened Rabbit's latest album Pedestrian Verse features a track called Escape Route that has the following lyrics:
His first kicking came on January 1st
They said, “Welcome to the club,
we’ll take your shoes and your shirt.”
He wore his nosebleed like a red rosette
And it was a prize he would win again and again and again.
He had to find an escape route.
It was a rumour, but it soon became true
When he was drunk in the suburbs
with a boy from a different school.
All his good friends soon left him for dead
Now he stands staring down at the Clyde from a bridge
And then he saw an escape route
From the dogs of West Renfrew
From the bitches and bruises
He chose Ohio to run to.

New girl group Kiara 7. Catchy tune. Out April 9th on itunes.
https://soundcloud.com/rhameesh-entertainment/kiara-7-smoke-and-mirrors

New girl group Kiara 7. Catchy tune. Out April 9th.
https://soundcloud.com/rhameesh-entertainment/kiara-7-smoke-and-mirrors

R2 and 36 have it. I'm eagerly awaiting the Haim album. The two singles have been the best pop songs I've heard for years, they will be difficult to top.
Third single "Falling" also great, I got all of them. They're like a new Fleetwood Mac, kinda similar to The Pierces but better.

Anything by Jessie Ware and Haim seem to be perfection. I hope they break out in the US like they have in Europe.
Some possibilities for acts that may hit breakout:
Tiny Dancer
Chloe Charles
360
Serena Ryder
Palma Violets
AlunaGeorge

I like the PJ Harvey feel of The Veils 'Time Stays, We Go' (love the tracks Through the Deep Dark Woods, The Pearl, and Another Night on Earth). Though I only discovered this this year, but it was apparently released in 2012.

The Feathers song is great, but the video is giving me bad Wilson Phillips 'Hold On' vibes (and so not good vibes like the Madonna video for Frozen) .

LOVE the new Shannon Wright album- In Film Sound. Uber cool.
Also really digging Marnie Stern - The Chronicles of Marnia.
Can't wait for the new albums by
Scout Niblett - It's Up to Emma
Dirty Beaches - Drifters / Love Is The Devil

It's been a good year for new music so far.
I'm absolutely obsessed with the new Knife album, "Shaking the Habitual." Some will hate it - it's a mix of very dark/weird dance music, and some really out-there ambient/noise that at times sounds more than anything else like a movie soundtrack. But it's very, very compelling.
Other new stuff I've been digging out in just the last few weeks: Kurt Vile, Flaming Lips, Deerhunter, Vampire Weekend, Atoms for Peace.

Chad Valley?
I've never heard of him before tonight, but by chance I found one of his songs under the free singles on the Amazon MP3 site.
He's a chubby ginger Brit with sweaty balls (at least in the attached live studio clip). His voice sounds a lot like Roland Orzabal from Tears For Fears, but it looks like he's a 'one-man-with-a-keyboard' kind of musician. And the music is more synthpop than Tears.
Not sure when the new album was released in the US (might have been last November), but on his site it says he just finished up a month-long promotional tour of several U.S. cities. Just my luck that I'm finding out about him literally 2 weeks after his show here in my town.
Anyway, I checked a bunch of his stuff on youtube, and I'm happy to have a new artist that I like. Well, I like some of it.
Attached is...
"Tell All Your Friends" - Chad Valley

I love Jake Bugg. He's young and needs more maturity but Lightening Bolt is brilliant.

Ciaran

I'm thrilled Agnetha Faltskog emerged to record and release another album but couldn't she have picked better material?

Daft Punk's new record pretty much has ended music, it so bad, I mean at times I burst out laughing at how shit and embarrassingly bad the songs are, but the press are cumming all over it non-stop. WTF?
James Blake's last album like this one is 24 shades of shit, yet hyped up as brilliant. Vampire Weekend the same. It is so disheartening to watch bad artists being lauded while great artists simply get ignored.

[quote]Of course, I'll love hearing the new My Bloody Valentine, although I'm not holding my breath that it'll actually be out any time soon.
Well it took 22 years, but My Bloody Valentine has FINALLY released their follow up to "Loveless"
And the fans and critics love it.

John Grant's new album "Pale Green Ghosts", which is, surprisingly, very electronic, is excellent.

[quote]It is so disheartening to watch bad artists being lauded while great artists simply get ignored.
So disheartening that you can't even take the time to post some of those great artists that are ignored but instead, you would rather just bitch and complain about artists you don't care for. Typical Datalounger response.

Capital Cities
Safe and Sound
It was released in 2011, but is just getting traction now, thanks to the amazing video.
I'm not usually into new rap, but I loved A$AP Rocky's latest. The fact that he's the Marvin Gaye of hiphop doesn't hurt either. Hot. As. Fuck.

Is Macklemore a parody? Is like sending up white people who try to act black like Justin Bieber / Timberlake ?

I'm looking forward to the new Empire of the Sun record even though the first single doesn't excite me much.
Also I just saw that Holy Ghost! is opening on some US tour dates for New Order this summer. I'm assuming they will have a new album to promote. That's another that I'll be excited to hear.

Joanna Newsom - "The North Star Grassman and the Ravens" not as good as Sandy, but a very nice cover.

I'm liking San Cisco. I guess their album was released in November (not sure about the US release date), but I'd never heard of them until this spring when they toured the US.
The chick drummer is and cool and cute. Sometimes she sings vocals too.
This track isn't on their album, but their in-studio cover of Get Lucky is fun.

r125, considering it was 5 years and several million dollars later, and we get Moroder and Paul Williams?
No, it sucked. Also, who the fuck told Pharrell he could sing?
Check out this cool Get Lucky cover. This guy is 19, is primarily a drummer, but plays all the other instruments.

Cannot wait for Neko's new album, and Throwing Muses new album out in Sep. It'll be a good month for music.

Austra has a new dance CD out that has a lot of people talking across the pond...

Does anyone know if Neko Case recorded a studio version of If You Knew, it was on her live album, I can't find it on her mai records, was it a b-side maybe?

It's a shame these youtube threads crash my ancient computer, I want to check some of this shit out.
r39 agree. Emeli Sande certainly has talent, but like early Alicia Keys and John Legend she's so dull and worthy. She does have a good voice and impressively doesn't oversing and has some taste. She had quite the showcase at the Olympics but I am at a loss to explain those UK sales.

Thundercat has a new CD called Apocalypse... It's really cool Jazzy summery and something new...

And if you really want to "Trip Out" oOoOO Yes, that's how it's spelled
oOoOO has a new one out called "Without Your Love"
It's trippy...

[quote]Cannot wait for Neko's new album, and Throwing Muses new album out in Sep. It'll be a good month for music.
The Muses album got pushed back to some time in October.
I like Neko's voice, but I find her material a bit precious.

The new Goldfrapp CD has leaked. It's gorgeous, sort of like a more organic "Felt Mountain".

Probably my favorite album from start to finish (meaning I felt all the songs were good to very solid without any filler) of the past 5 years was the 2008 debut from White Lies.
Their 2010 follow-up disc was not as good in my opinion and I was sure that meant they were just a one-album wonder for me.
But they just released their 3rd disc, and so far I'm really liking it.
"Goldmine" - White Lies

R189, you sound like a plebe who only listens to whatever is spoonfed to you by top 40 corporate radio. Just because you have no interest in broadening your horizons doesn't mean that those who do are "pretentious." Most of these artists are hardly obscure.

I generally like the band The Feeling and just read they have a new album about to come out. Like their last disc, I doubt it will have a U.S. release.
Also, lead singer Dan Gillespie-Sells is a handsome gay man.
The first single (attached) doesn't excite me to much. I'm more looking forward to the album as a whole.
The Feeling - "Rescue"

Shane Filan from Westlife is about to release his debut solo CD.
I've always had a love/hate relationship with Westlife. Even though I hate the majority of the ballad-y dreck songs they released, I still feel like I like the group. Probably because I want to fuck all of them.
Anyway, sounds like Shane is staying in very comfortable/boring territory for his solo career. There are 2 singles available on youtube - both are pretty uninspired.
There is also this cover version of the Lonestar smash Amazed. Not sure if it will be a track on the new CD, but it's serviceable. That's one thing I usually did like Westlife for - their cover songs were decent.
I will be curious to check out Mark Feehily's forthcoming work too. Mark and Shane were the only decent voices in the group.
Shane Filan - "Amazed"

So now the year has come to an end, here is my top 5 favorite albums of 2013.
1. Shannon Wright - In Film Sound
2. Throwing Muses - Purgatory / Paradise
3. Marnie Stern - The Chronicles of Marnia
4. Scout Niblett - It's Up to Emma
5. Dirty Beaches - Drifters / Love is the Devil

MIA - Matangai

[quote]I did not like Blood Orange's album, but he co-wrote two incredible songs which are hits in the making. Here's one:
[quote]by: Sky Ferreira, "Everything Is Embarrassing"
Thank god for Spotify. I dig Everything is embarrassing because of the 80s feel, but the rest of her music... meh.

Sky Ferreira also has "I Blame Myself," which is a great track.
Kat Dahlia - Crazy, Gangster, Mirror
Majical Cloudz
RAC has some good mixes
David Archuleta, Crush and Other Side of Down
Brandon Flowers, Right Beside You

[quote]Sky Ferreira also has "I Blame Myself," which is a great track.
It's pretty bland.

To each their own. I love her vocal on that track.
Weeknd has a good track, Tears In the Rain. Also, Vanessa by Grimes.